Christina Corbane
Senior researcher in remote sensing
applied to earth sciences

Christina Corbane is a senior researcher in remote sensing
applied to earth sciences. She received her Ph.D. degree inremote sensing applied to the study of soil surface features inagricultural landscapes from the Université Montpellier
II, France.
She developed processing chains and AI-driven
applications for mapping and monitoring of humansettlements with remote sensing imagery at Europeanand Global scales in the framework of the Copernicus Earth
Observation Program. She also worked on maritime security,monitoring of the conservation status of naturalhabitats, rapid emergency mapping and the use of Earth
Observation for supporting the indicators framework of the2030 international agendas.
She is currently the leader of the Disaster Risk Management
Knowledge Centre of the European Commission. Her mainrole is the coordination of the different projects, IT platforms
and activities meant to provide scientific support for theefficient and coherent implementation of EU policies andinternational agreements in the field of Disaster Risk
Reduction and Conflict Prevention.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christina-Corbane

Hirokazu Tatano
Professor and former vice director of Disaster
Prevention Research Institute at Kyoto University,Japan; Secretary-General of GADRI

Hirokazu TATANO is the professor and former vice director ofDisaster Prevention Research Institute at Kyoto University. He
has been serving as a vice-president of the International
Society of Integrated Disaster risk management (IDRiMSociety)，a Board Member of the Japan Society of Natural
Disaster Science， Secretary-General of Global Alliance ofDisaster Research Institutes (GADRI) and a Member of theUNISDR Global Science and Technology Advisory Group.
He received his M.Sc. And Ph.D. in civil engineering from Kyoto
University. Much of Dr. Tatano’s research is on the economics
of natural hazards. He has coordinated to analyze the economic
consequences of the 2011 Tohoku-oki Earthquake and Tsunami.
Dr. Tatano has done pioneering research on economic
consequence analysis and his major focus has been on
economic resilience to natural disasters at the levels of theindividual business, market, and regional economy. Anotherresearch focus is methodologies for integrated disaster risk
management and governance. Through these academic
activities, he wishes to contribute to establishing“ Implementation Science” as a key area of science for disasterrisk reduction. He published more than 150 refereed papers,20 books and 100 conference papers.

Irene Manzella

Head of the Centre for Disaster Resilience andAssociate Professor at the Faculty of GeoInformation Science and Earth Observation (ITC) ofthe University of Twente in the Netherlands

Dr Eng Irene Manzella is Head of the Centre for Disaster
Resilience and Associate Professor at the Faculty of GeoInformation Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of theUniversity of Twente in the Netherlands.
Her research field extends across the study of the hazard andrisk assessment of multiple and complex phenomena with amulti-disciplinary approach. Her education includes a Master at
Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in Environmental/geotechnicalEngineering, a Master of Advanced studies in “Settlements
upgrading for cooperation and development”, focused on
prevention and forecast of natural hazards and a PhD at theRock Mechanics Laboratory at the École PolytechniqueFédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland). She has carried out aPostdoc at the Civil engineering department at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, US) and a postdocand a senior Research and teaching assistant role at theUniversity of Geneva. She has worked as Assistant Professor
first and then as Associated Professor in Engineering Geology
and Geohazards at the University of Plymouth (UK). She isdeputy Scientific Leader of the Geohazards, Geoengineeringand Georesilience theme of the Geological Society of London
and nominated member of the Natural Environment ResearchCouncil Review Panel.

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